glaciers remain in the Bighorns,
a few tiny ones in the Wyoming
Absarokas (more across the border
in the Absarokas in Montana), the
Tetons, and of course, the Wind
River Range, which is host to quite a
number of them.
There was a certain mystique
on my first flight from Colorado
to Wyoming, passing the Wind
Rivers and Tetons, gazing into
these mountain ranges, which were
in my opinion more rugged than
taller cousins to the south. Simply
knowing that “there are glaciers
in there” elevated the magnitude
of what I was looking at, and I
knew from the beginning that I’d
have to go and explore them. From
“exploration” came the idea to do a
book on the glaciers of Wyoming.
Once I confirmed that some glaciers
did remain in Colorado, I decided to
add those in, as I figured our friends
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